What should root.getJoins return after a root.get("x")?

[lukasj]

I just found out that the following leads to different results in EclipseLink and Hibernate. And I can't decide from looking at the Spec which is the correct behavior:

CriteriaBuilder builder = em.getCriteriaBuilder();
CriteriaQuery<User> query = builder.createQuery(User.class);
Root<User> root = query.from(User.class);

root.get("manager");

// this returns 1 in EclipseLink and 0 in Hibernate.
root.getJoins()

User is an entity with manager being a self-reference (I don't think the "self" part is relevant here).

@Entity
public class User {
	@Id @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO) private Integer id;
	@ManyToOne private User manager;
        // getters and setters omitted for brevity.
}

Please clarify in the specification and in the TCK which one it should be.

[lukasj]

• Issue Imported From: https://github.com/javaee/jpa-spec/issues/169
• Original Issue Raised By:@schauder
• Original Issue Assigned To: Unassigned

[schauder]

Related issue in the EclipseLink issue tracker: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=413892

[m-reza-rahman]

This seems like low-hanging fruit that could be looked at in the next release and resolved one way or the other? I would say this is not that high of a priority either way.

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